How to facing the future of novels facing the future

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We are in the Internet era, and the popular literature of online literature and traditional literature continues to prosper. Under such a social and cultural context, the prospects of serious literature are not determined by the writers and researchers privately, but by the development direction of the times. It was determined by the conscious choice of the literary reading market. The existing serious literary positions are only more tolerant, more diverse, and wider vision, rather than rejection and high. Only in this way can we be full of vitality and gain the trust of readers. Only in this way, serious literature can enter the sustainable development track.

In recent years, the new "novel revolution" has been repeatedly mentioned. At a literary activity in 2020, the advocate Wang Yao said that for a long time, novel creation has been stagnant as a whole, although I clearly and firmly realize that the novel is necessary to revolution again. The law of the development of the novel is opposed to the use of one or more definitions to limit the development of novels, and oppose the creation of one or more classic text specification novels. Therefore, advocating a new "novel revolution" exactly expresses the desire of liberating novels. Since then, this view has been echoed by many writers and critics.

At present, the continuous marginalization of serious literature and the prosperity of network type literature have formed a huge contrast. How will we face the future? Some different literary concepts have been reflected in the creative practice of writers. For example, Qiu Huadong's martial arts novels created in recent years, the latest science fiction novels such as Jiang Yi, Wang William, etc. A kind of power to think about the future and how to change.

Martial arts and serious literature are not a opposition. In the 1980s and 1990s, Yang Zhengguang entered the reader's vision as a writer of pioneer literature, and his screenwriter's "Shuangqi Town Swordsman" pushed martial arts movies to a new height. Public case novels and martial arts novels have become the literary style of ordinary readers who have seen it for a long time. Even at the moment, martial arts novels have a good reader foundation. Readers' sense of closeness to history and traditional culture is determined by our national genes. A number of serious writers such as Qiu Huadong and other serious writers intervened with modern novels, making martial arts novels a possibility. In the 1990s, Qiu Huadong attracted the attention of the literary world as a representative writer of the "new generation". Since then, he has been trying to break through himself, and has written historical martial arts novels in recent years. He absorbed nutrients from traditional Chinese culture, started imagination of history, published a series of martial arts novels, and once again attracted the attention of the critics and readers. For martial arts novels that are regarded as popular literature, serious literature is a very meaningful breakthrough. It enriches the form and content of the current novels and allows serious literature to approach readers from the subject level.

In addition to martial arts, science fiction, as a type of novel, has also begun to be active in recent years. Since the new century, with the popularity of the Internet and the rapid progress of science and technology, the imagination and fictional space of writers have been opened by unprecedented space. Jiang Yi's short story "Floating" has a strong science fiction. In the era of artificial intelligence, the imagination of writers is no longer subject to real life scenes. In the work, Master Huiran is chaired by the Zen Academy and a monk. He accepted three disciples in the second half of his life: a big disciple, and he died of a cliff half a year ago. Two disciples have a light. It was a disciple of Master Huiran, and the first robot Zen master in the history of the Zen Academy. The novel has re -discussed whether the development of science and technology serves human beings or controls humans through science and technology through the writing of the three people. Jiang Yi talked about the speculative expression of scientific and technological development and human relations, which is obviously forward -looking. He built a complete and unfamiliar new world for readers, and at the same time combined stories and technology, and narrative was a strange magic. Investigate such soft science fiction in the scope of serious literature, we have seen a new landscape. Some writers have begun to pay attention to the impact of scientific and technological development on human beings. Cognition and thinking of the world and the future world. Expand the vision of serious literature and enrich the subject matter of serious literature.

Martial arts, science fiction, detective reasoning, etc. are attributed to the works of type novels. The relatively strange narrative has given readers more reading options. He Ping believes that "good type novels are true national literature." In the traditional elegant vitality, the type novels open up their own "third road". A large part of the grassroots writing of online literature is to take writing as a business. The traditional type of novels of literati writing are both literary business and personal literary creation and aesthetic life. Type novels have a self -sufficient aesthetic specified, which can be separated and independent from popular literature. No matter what values, worldviews, emotional content and knowledge maps are provided, the type novels must finally refer to the present narrative technology and tell a good story. From this perspective, type novels are also the most affinity with serious literature, and the two do not have a strict distinction between the two.

When Xu Chenliang talked about type novels, it was not only a factual description that equivalent type literature with popular literature and popular literature, but also a rhetoric mode of implicit value judgment. This statement obviously ignores the connection between "type" and exploratory and pioneering writing practice. Compared with type literature, it is not "pure literature". Those who defended "tunes and widow" are defense that is "pseudo -literature" that is circle. The logic behind its words is to use the sophistry of "can't nor the readers", covering up the "pseudo -literature" itself's closure, poverty, stale, narrow, rough, and empty. In this sense, it is precisely a new opportunity for type literature that allows us to break the "circle" of "pseudo -literature" and save "pure literature". If martial arts are looking for writing resources in the face of history and traditional culture, and science fiction is facing the future, then how to focus on the current reality writing? In the permanent life of continuous repeated, fragmented, and the metaphysical life of chicken feathers, finding realistic meaning and artisticness for readers, letting writers present a refreshing literary aesthetics, which is indeed greatly challenging. The more familiar life, the more difficult it is to write.

Zhong Qiu's short -story "longer than time" boldly breaks the border of the style to seek change. He tried to innovate in form and content, breaking and expanding the style of novels in the traditional sense, while emphasizing the readability of the novel. The works are divided into fiction and non -fictional parts. Language, plot, and details are also expanded according to the narrative methods of two types of styles. The combination of combination has produced a wonderful reading experience. The fictional part is not the same as Zhong Qiu's previous novel style. The protagonist recalls the 79 -year -old father on Monday and asked to remember the name to the police station on Monday to change the name when he was young, because it was really difficult to do. In the end, I had to find a gift company to make a fake ID card, and used a good faith to lie but my father's wish. The non -fictional part, Zhong Qiu wrote the past of his middle school teacher Zhou Tingqi, and the past of Mr. Zhou's younger lover when he was young. Ten years ago, when Teacher Zhou, who had retired, drank tea, revealed his emotional story to Zhong Qiwei. One Friday after the Spring Festival, Zhong Qiu learned that the teacher died. After sending goodbye to the teacher, Zhong Qiu was inquiring about Teacher Yan, and learned that she had retired in the 1990s and died five years ago. Teacher Yan had only work in his eyes, unmarried for life, leaving a adopted son. According to the pavement of the non -fictional part, the writer ended at the end of the novel: One year before her death, Teacher Saton kept her for more than 50 years to burn the letter with her first love. Those letters belonged to only two people. Yangzi hopes to leave the stamp he likes. Teacher said, "I can leave it for you, and some things cannot be left for you."

The strange form of the work is shining. Fiction and non -fiction are integrated in the text. At the end of the novel, more than five hundred words is a sublimation of fragmented and unable to see any meaningful non -fictional part of narrative, and it is also a simple metaphysical process. "Father" was renamed because of Teacher Yan, and he wanted to meet her in another world when he met the name of Teacher Chan. And because of the "father" (Mr. Zhou) for life, Mr. Xi was unmarried. The general construction of the fictional part and the non -fictional part has found a spiritual finger at the end of the work. The fictional part, "Father" is the protagonist of the work. The abnormality of "father" was reasonably explained in the non -fictional part, and the protagonist of the narrative also shifted. During Zhong Qiu's continuous excavation process, the legend of Teacher Yan's life was highlighted, and the ending was strengthened. It was full of metaphysical colors, so that the narrative of the novel was sublimated.

Zhong Qiu was frank, the original idea of ​​the novel, and the plot of Zhang Yimou's movie "One Second" had a crash. And he puts the collision plot in the non -fictional part, which solves this problem. The non -fictional part also eliminates the identity of the writer behind the writer, and opened the personal life details of the writer directly to the reader. There is also a "by -product" of the work, that is, Zhong Qiu is a "transparent" novel "operation". We also realize that art comes from life and is higher than life, and real life will not directly provide art. Non -fictional writers have been patiently prepared for the artisticization of life. The past of Teacher Zhou and Teacher Yan is just an incomplete story, with only a disappointment result. It has no context, lack of form, and the plot is also disorderly. It cannot see complete development, the meaning of the process cannot be seen, and only the universality in daily life can be seen. In "longer than time", we see that Zhong Qiu is refined from the daily scattered plot, and he presents all the creative process for readers. The novel is a very free and extremely inclusive style. How to write the novel is never limited by boundary. And "longer than time" is a very experimental novel text. Compared with the pioneer literature in the mid -1980s, Zhong Qiu's experiments are mild. "The operation makes the work close to ordinary readers.

The "May 4th" new literature movement advocates "to push the carved aristocratic literature and build a easy lyrical national literature."Literature should have transcendence aesthetic exploration. The times and society have enough tolerance space, but the relationship between literary works and ordinary readers should be harmonious. This is the mainstream of literary scenes.We are in the Internet era, and the popular literature of online literature and traditional literature continues to prosper. Under such a social and cultural context, the prospects of serious literature are not determined by the writers and researchers privately, but by the development direction of the times.It was determined by the conscious choice of the literary reading market.The existing serious literary positions are only more tolerant, more diverse, and wider vision, rather than rejection and high.Only in this way can we be full of vitality and obtain the trust of readers; only in this way, serious literature can enter the sustainable development track.Content source: Literature and Art News July 11, 2022

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